Thurs, February 17th - Olean Public Library - (following C3)
May 18th - CASLS office (before Annual Dinner)
Spring Membership Day - March 10th - Olean BOCES Annual Dinner - May 18th
Please take a moment to send me your ILL stats if you haven't already.
Have a great weekend!
While people are marking their calendars, please note that the 2d Biennial ACAF Scholarship Benefit Book Fair (I just made up that title) is scheduled at Wellsville Middle/High School on Saturday March 12th. This is the fair to benefit the Allegany County Area Foundation's college scholarship funds. Our first fair was held the summer before last (hence the biennial name). Anyone who might want to help out with this event is welcome to join us; please let me know if you are interested and I will add your email address to my list of participating librarians. Teachers, staff, family and friends are welcome to help, too! Lu Ellis Interim SLMS Wellsville Middle & HighGREAT SITE FOR TEENS - Reality Check on Financeshttp://www.californiarealitycheck.com/
Image Search Engines
AltaVista Image Search: Use AltaVista to find images of all kinds on the Web, including photos, graphics, or banners and buttons.
Google Image Search: Google's huge database will help you find pretty much any image on any topic that you can think of.
Picsearch: Find images, photos, animations; I like the "Most Popular Pictures" feature.
Ditto.com: Ditto's been around for a long time. Very extensive collection of images, photos, art, and more.
Yahoo Image Search:Use Yahoo's Advanced Image Search to really narrow down your searches. You can filter by size, coloration, site/domain, and more.
Ithaki Image Search Engine: searches across Cydral, Google Image Search, YahooImages, Dino, Alltheweb and Picsearch for images.
Image Search Sites
ImageAfter: "You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial." Wide variety of images here.
Stock.xchng: This is the first place I go for images on the Web. There are varying licenses with each image, but most are completely fair-use.
Flickr is a great place to go to find a huge array of different photos. Make sure you check if the photo you want to use is available; not all Flickr users give this kind of permission.
YotoPhoto: All free fair to use photographs and images.
Corbis: Search through stock photography and pictures.
Fabfotos.com: High quality photography collection; includes only sites with high quality submissions.
Getty Images: Huge database of searchable images from various leading brands. You can narrow your search to include only royalty-free images.
SI Art Image Browser: From the University of Michigan. Art, architectural, and museum object images from 4 different museums and collections, including the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Hubble's Greatest Hits: Amazing pictures of space objects as collected by the Hubble telescope from 1990-1995.
JSC Digital Image Collection: From the site: "This collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission."
NYPL Digital Gallery: The New York Public Library's collection of free digital images. "NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 337,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."
*Note: please read the fine print before using images from any of these image search engines or image search sites. Different photos and sites have different usage licenses, which can possibly restrict your use of their image.
Ronda's Corner
Dates to Remember
C3 Meetings:Council
Spring Membership Day - March 10th - Olean BOCES
Annual Dinner - May 18th
Please take a moment to send me your ILL stats if you haven't already.
Have a great weekend!
While people are marking their calendars, please note that the 2d Biennial ACAF Scholarship Benefit Book Fair (I just made up that title) is scheduled at Wellsville Middle/High School on Saturday March 12th. This is the fair to benefit the Allegany County Area Foundation's college scholarship funds. Our first fair was held the summer before last (hence the biennial name). Anyone who might want to help out with this event is welcome to join us; please let me know if you are interested and I will add your email address to my list of participating librarians. Teachers, staff, family and friends are welcome to help, too!
Lu Ellis
Interim SLMS
Wellsville Middle & HighGREAT SITE FOR TEENS - Reality Check on Financeshttp://www.californiarealitycheck.com/
Image Search Engines
Image Search Sites
- ImageAfter: "You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial." Wide variety of images here.
- Stock.xchng: This is the first place I go for images on the Web. There are varying licenses with each image, but most are completely fair-use.
- Flickr is a great place to go to find a huge array of different photos. Make sure you check if the photo you want to use is available; not all Flickr users give this kind of permission.
- YotoPhoto: All free fair to use photographs and images.
- Corbis: Search through stock photography and pictures.
- Fabfotos.com: High quality photography collection; includes only sites with high quality submissions.
- Getty Images: Huge database of searchable images from various leading brands. You can narrow your search to include only royalty-free images.
- SI Art Image Browser: From the University of Michigan. Art, architectural, and museum object images from 4 different museums and collections, including the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
- Hubble's Greatest Hits: Amazing pictures of space objects as collected by the Hubble telescope from 1990-1995.
- University of Colorado Garst Photographic Collection: Amazing collection of over 20,000 images put together by the Garsts as they were filming for Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom television series.
- American Memory Collections:Photos and Prints: From the Library of Congress. Collections include Ansel Adams photography, Civil War, and Presidents and First Ladies.
- Smithsonian Photographic Collection: "Search or browse through selected images from Smithsonian collections."
- Classroom Clipart: A source for free downloadable clipart, searchable by topic.
- George Eastman House: Search through a wide variety of photo and image collections, including motion picture and technology collections.
- TimeLife Pictures: Powered by Getty Images. A fascinating collection of photos and images included in both Time and Life magazines.
- National Geographic Photography Collection: Includes photo galleries from this acclaimed magazine, gorgeous wallpapers, photo of the day, and more.
- JSC Digital Image Collection: From the site: "This collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission."
- Image Collections and Online Art: From the University of Michigan. Includes images and art from all over the world.
- NYPL Digital Gallery: The New York Public Library's collection of free digital images. "NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 337,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."
*Note: please read the fine print before using images from any of these image search engines or image search sites. Different photos and sites have different usage licenses, which can possibly restrict your use of their image.